[PD] euclidean rhythms

[Pierre Massat]

Do you want to have a similar GUI as well?

Pierre

2011/5/26 Martin Dupras <martindupras at gmail.com>

> I had a quick read of the paper just now. I might have missed the
> point altogether, but from what I understand, the results that he gets
> from the Euclidian algorithm are the same (if you accept a rotation
> pattern as being equivalent) as what you'd get from the simple
> rounding of fractions.
>
> In other words: let's say you want 5 beats in a grid of 12 (or a
> 12-sided polygon, if we use his graphical representation), the exact
> spacing between two beats would be 12/5, or 2.4.
>
> The first beat would be 0*2.4= 0.
> The second beat would 1*2.4 = 2.4, rounded to 2
> The third would be 2*2.4 = 4.8, which we round to 5.
> The fourth would be 3*2.4= 7.2, which we round to 7.
> The fifth would be 4*2.4  = 9.6, which we round to 10.
>
> We now have the pattern x.x..x.x..x.
>
> The way I would do it would be to store the pattern in table;
> calculate the slice size (e.g. 12/5), then multiply successfully by
> values from 0 to n-1 (0 to 4, since we want 5 divisions of 12), round
> that, and then store a "1" at the rounded index values.
>
> I'm sure there are plenty of more elegant methods.
>
> - martin
>
>
>
> On 25 May 2011 22:13, Cody Loyd <codyloyd at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Posted this on the PD forum.. but haven't heard anything yet so i
> > thought I'd try here as well.
> >
> > Euclidean Rhythms
> >
> > I am interested in implementing something like THIS:
> >
> > http://www.hisschemoller.com/
> >
> > in PD.
> >
> > I understand the algorithm for generating the rhythms on paper, but
> > i'm not sure how in Pd to go about doing it.  I'd imagine that it
> > would involve some pretty heavy 'list surgery' and I'm not too sure
> > how to go about doing it.
> >
> > This website:
> >
> > http://ruinwesen.com/blog?id=216
> >
> > gives a little more info on how the algorithm works (especially in the
> > PDF he links to, page 2 has the relevant example), and talks about
> > coding the thing in Lisp, but i can't figure it out in PD.
> >
> > any hints?
> >
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